Thursday, June 29, 2006
Things that go BOOM in the dark
Last night, the hubby, kidlet and I drove up to Albertville to check out my little brother's brand new house, and drop off a new storm door. It was a nice drive, long, and in rush hour. We stopped at Joe's Crab Shack in Maple Grove on the way home. Mmmmmm.... steamed crab legs....
So, we get back into Apple Valley a little after 10pm. We're in the left turn lane on Cedar to 140th. I lean over to play with the radio, and BOOM! We're hit! A young girl was having a diabetic episode, and rear ended another car, which smashed into our truck, and then spun and hit us again. Now I'm sore. My head hit the passenger window, but I'm really the only one in our vehicle that has any injury other than a lot of shaken nerves and new paranoias.
Since I hit my head, once we got back to our house, we got into my car and went to the ER to be checked out. When the doctor told me he was going to get me some Vicodin, I said that I'd have to have liquid. He looked at me strangely. I repeated, for like the 4th time, that I've had gastric bypass and cannot take pills easily. He asked what I'd like for a pain killer, and I said that I'd probably be best with some Roxicet. He had to go look up the drug to see what it was. He had never heard of it. I didn't know that liquid pain killers were so rare. But I guess for this ER doc, they are.
Anyway. Everyone that was in the accident, all 6 people involved, are doing okay. The young lady spent her night in the hospital to get her blood sugars back under control, since she was at 40 when the cops showed up. Another woman has a broken ankle, but she was in relatively good spirits when we talked to her in the waiting room at the ER. Looking at our truck today to get personal things out, it's amazing that more people weren't severly hurt. I'm grateful that everyone lived, and that the young girl who started it all will now be taking better care of herself.
It's been a long day.
So, we get back into Apple Valley a little after 10pm. We're in the left turn lane on Cedar to 140th. I lean over to play with the radio, and BOOM! We're hit! A young girl was having a diabetic episode, and rear ended another car, which smashed into our truck, and then spun and hit us again. Now I'm sore. My head hit the passenger window, but I'm really the only one in our vehicle that has any injury other than a lot of shaken nerves and new paranoias.
Since I hit my head, once we got back to our house, we got into my car and went to the ER to be checked out. When the doctor told me he was going to get me some Vicodin, I said that I'd have to have liquid. He looked at me strangely. I repeated, for like the 4th time, that I've had gastric bypass and cannot take pills easily. He asked what I'd like for a pain killer, and I said that I'd probably be best with some Roxicet. He had to go look up the drug to see what it was. He had never heard of it. I didn't know that liquid pain killers were so rare. But I guess for this ER doc, they are.
Anyway. Everyone that was in the accident, all 6 people involved, are doing okay. The young lady spent her night in the hospital to get her blood sugars back under control, since she was at 40 when the cops showed up. Another woman has a broken ankle, but she was in relatively good spirits when we talked to her in the waiting room at the ER. Looking at our truck today to get personal things out, it's amazing that more people weren't severly hurt. I'm grateful that everyone lived, and that the young girl who started it all will now be taking better care of herself.
It's been a long day.
